Paper.. The BIG Saturday Crossword
Cryptic clues
Across
7. One who rolls up a jacket (6) 8. Unseated, we hear, from a lofty perch (6) 10. Part of Spain where one is imprisoned in a fortress (7) 11. Pay in goods for freight transport (5) 12. Location for some of the scenes I televised (4) 13. A great many high cards - clubs! (5) 17. Electricity authority (5) 18. Not far from endless darkness (4) 22. Tapestry put back in sumptuous arrangement (5) 23. Supervisor to engage too many staff (7) 24. See 5 Down (6) 25. Handles eccentrics (6)
Down
1. Method of manufacturing company brought up in the newspapers (7) 2. Compactness of a
specific kind! (7) 3. Fifty nine backing
Russian leader (5) 4. To cause fragmentation of the arts (7) 5 & 24 Ac. In practice
he’s a stand-in (5,6) 6. Are they classed as
furniture? (5) 9. Boccaccio’s tales of French romance translated (9) 14. They’re related to us when the money’s around! (7) 15. Change in metal - needs to be treated (7) 16. She gets involved
with nice oriental (7) 19. Glutinous meat pie (5) 20. Conqueror of Gaul, to
be candid (5) 21. The kind of stone
that’s a certain type (5)
Down
1. Whine (7) 2. Inebriated (7) 3. Cover (5) 4. Feverish (7) 5. Stop! (5) 6. Silly (5) 9. Feeling (9) 14. Feathers (7) 15. Trip (7) 16. Funnel (7) 19. Range (5) 20. Tag (5) 21. Arrogate (5)